EVENT INFORMATION

19
April
1823

Baron Milius issues a severe anti-marronnage ordinance

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📅 19 April 1823 📍 Guyana Franses

On 19 April 1823, administrator Baron Milius issued a detailed ordinance to regulate and punish marronnage. It required owners to report escapes, authorized armed pursuit, allowed shooting fugitives resisting capture, and offered financial rewards for capture or death. It also prescribed imprisonment and forced public labor for captured fugitives. The document makes colonial violence visible while the repeated escapes it targeted attest to ongoing resistance.

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🔖 Marká

Personanan den e suseso aki

Pierre Bernard

Baron Milius

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

colonial administration

gendarmerie

slaveholders